[wilsonthewhale]

Do you have any references or papers that developed the idea of having a stack at runtime? I love reading into the fundamentals of modern computing.

[mjn]

Dijkstra's paper "Recursive Programming" (1960) is where he lays out his proposal for implementing recursive Algol-60 subroutines with a stack: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/07_dijk...